<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=248FMP_0wFescPe00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=248FMP_0wFescPe00" width="740" height="400" ><figcaption>Number One in Hardcover Fiction: Intermezzo:by Sally Rooney, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.</figcaption></figure>Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,October 13th, 2024. This list is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.HARDCOVER FICTION<ol><li>Intermezzo</li><li>Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635</li><li>Creation Lake</li><li>Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521</li><li>Tell Me Everything</li><li>Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096</li><li>Playground</li><li>Richard Powers, W. W. Norton &amp; Company, $29.99, 9781324086031</li><li>The God of the Woods</li><li>Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918</li><li>James</li><li>Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369</li><li>All Fours</li><li>Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265</li><li>Colored Television</li><li>Danzy Senna, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593544372</li><li>Martyr!</li><li>Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619</li><li>The Empusium</li><li>Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Transl.), Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593712948</li><li>The Life Impossible</li><li>Matt Haig, Viking, $30, 9780593489277</li><li>Small Things Like These</li><li>Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741</li><li>We Solve Murders</li><li>Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653227</li><li>The Last Dream</li><li>Pedro Almodóvar, HarperVia, $26, 9780063349766</li><li>Our Evenings</li></ol><ol><li>Alan Hollinghurst, Random House, $30, 9780593243060</li></ol>HARDCOVER NONFICTION<ol><li>Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir</li><li>Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895</li><li>The Message</li><li>Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381</li><li>Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering</li><li>Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805</li><li>Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI</li><li>Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223</li><li>The Creative Act: A Way of Being</li><li>Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886</li><li>Ottolenghi Comfort: A Cookbook</li><li>Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $37.99, 9780399581779</li><li>Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts</li><li>Oliver Burkeman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 9780374611996</li><li>The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness</li><li>Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030</li><li>Taylor Swift Style: Fashion Through the Eras</li><li>Sarah Chapelle, St. Martin’s Griffin, $35, 9781250906151</li><li>Into the Uncut Grass</li><li>Trevor Noah, Sabina Hahn (Illus.), One World, $26, 9780593729960</li><li>Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future Of Blizzard Entertainment</li><li>Jason Schreier, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538725429</li><li>On Freedom</li><li>Timothy Snyder, Crown, $32, 9780593728727</li><li>Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health</li><li>Casey Means, M.D., Calley Means, Avery, $32, 9780593712641</li><li>From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir</li><li>Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough, Random House, $32, 9780593733875</li><li>Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous</li></ol><ol><li>Gillian Anderson, Harry N. Abrams, $28, 9781419777295</li></ol>TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION<ol><li>Demon Copperhead</li><li>Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984</li><li>Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow</li><li>Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490</li><li>North Woods</li><li>Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040</li><li>The Housemaid</li><li>Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570</li><li>A Court of Thorns and Roses</li><li>Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569</li><li>The MANIAC</li><li>Benjamin Labatut, Penguin Books, $18, 9780593654491</li><li>A Little Life</li><li>Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18, 9780804172707</li><li>My Brilliant Friend</li><li>Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064</li><li>Project Hail Mary</li><li>Andy Weir, Ballantine, $20, 9780593135228</li><li>The Cat Who Saved Books</li><li>Sosuke Natsukawa, HarperVia, $18.99, 9780063095731</li><li>Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology</li><li>Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $17, 9780593468463</li><li>Fourth Wing</li><li>Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371</li><li>Big Swiss</li><li>Jen Beagin, Scribner, $17, 9781982153090</li><li>Bunny</li><li>Mona Awad, Penguin, $17, 9780525559757</li><li>The Alchemist</li></ol><ol><li>Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007</li></ol>TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION<ol><li>The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession</li><li>Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456</li><li>All About Love: New Visions</li><li>bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470</li><li>The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017</li><li>Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651</li><li>Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir</li><li>Werner Herzog, Penguin, $20, 9780593490310</li><li>The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma</li><li>Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741</li><li>The White Album: Essays</li><li>Joan Didion, FSG, $18, 9780374532079</li><li>The Backyard Bird Chronicles</li><li>Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131</li><li>The 2025 Old Farmer’s Almanac</li><li>, Old Farmer’s Almanac, $10.95, 9781571989932</li><li>The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom</li><li>Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310</li><li>Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants</li><li>Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560</li><li>Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune</li><li>Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe, Harper, $19.99, 9780062964663</li><li>Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir</li><li>Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791</li><li>Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know</li><li>Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $21.99, 9780316299220</li><li>Who by Fire: War, Atonement, and the Resurrection of Leonard Cohen</li><li>Matti Friedman, Spiegel &amp; Grau, $20, 9781954118447</li><li>Man’s Search for Meaning</li></ol><ol><li>Viktor E. Frankl, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807014271</li></ol>MASS MARKET<ol><li>Interview with the Vampire</li><li>Anne Rice, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345337665</li><li>Mistborn: The Final Empire</li><li>Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541</li><li>The Shining</li><li>Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743657</li><li>The Way of Kings</li><li>Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279</li><li>1984</li><li>George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935</li><li>Ender’s Game</li><li>Orson Scott Card, Tor, $9.99, 9781250773012</li><li>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</li><li>William Shakespeare, Simon &amp; Schuster, $6.99, 9780743477543</li><li>Animal Farm</li><li>George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342</li><li>And Then There Were None</li><li>Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488</li><li>The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories</li></ol><ol><li>Oscar Wilde, Signet, $6.95, 9780451530455</li></ol>CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED<ol><li>The Bakery Dragon</li><li>Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968</li><li>Room on the Broom</li><li>Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409</li><li>When Digz the Dog Met Zurl the Squirrel: A Short Tale About a Short Tail</li><li>Chris Pine, Chuck Groenink (Illus.), Flamingo Books, $18.99, 9780593528228</li><li>Bluey’s Halloween Mix-and-Match</li><li>Penguin Young Readers Licenses, Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593752838</li><li>Creepy Carrots!</li><li>Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781442402973</li><li>Good Night, Gorilla</li><li>Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035</li><li>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</li><li>Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908</li><li>The Yowlers</li><li>Stacy Lynn Carroll, Molly Ruttan (Illus.), Nancy Paulsen Books, $18.99, 9780593109885</li><li>Madeline</li><li>Ludwig Bemelmans, Viking, $9.99, 9780670014071</li><li>Construction Site: Garbage Crew to the Rescue!</li></ol><ol><li>Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781797226552</li></ol>CHILDREN'S INTEREST<ol><li>Impossible Creatures</li><li>Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860</li><li>Nothing Like the Movies</li><li>Lynn Painter, Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665947138</li><li>The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale</li><li>Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361</li><li>Heir</li><li>Sabaa Tahir, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9780593616949</li><li>Sisters: A Graphic Novel</li><li>Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880</li><li>The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science</li><li>Kate McKinnon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316554732</li><li>Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A LOVE Story</li><li>Jason Reynolds, Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $19.99, 9781665961271</li><li>Spy School Entrance Exam: A Spy School Book of Devious Word Searches, Clever Crosswords, Sly Sudoku, and Other Top Secret Puzzles!</li><li>Stuart Gibbs, Jeff Chen, Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9781665951364</li><li>The Last Dragon on Mars</li><li>Scott Reintgen, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665946513</li><li>The Sherlock Society</li></ol><ol><li>James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665932530</li></ol>CHILDREN'S SERIES<ol><li>The Wild Robot</li><li>Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers</li><li>Percy Jackson and the Olympians</li><li>Rick Riordan, Hyperion</li><li>Dog Man</li><li>Dav Pilkey, Graphix</li><li>Spy School</li><li>Stuart Gibbs, Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers</li><li>Diary of a Wimpy Kid</li><li>Jeff Kinney, Amulet</li><li>The Princess in Black</li><li>Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick</li><li>Amulet</li><li>Kazu Kibuishi, Graphix</li><li>InvestiGators</li><li>John Patrick Green, First Second</li><li>Wings of Fire</li><li>Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic</li><li>Magic Tree House</li></ol><ol><li>Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers</li></ol></div></body>

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Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,October 13th, 2024. This list is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.